North Korea says South’s Kaesong Industrial Closure ‘A Declaration of War’ 

North Korea says South’s Kaesong Industrial Closure ‘A Declaration of War’. North Korea says it is kicking out all South Koreans from the jointly run Kaesong industrial zone and freezing the assets of companies operating there, calling the South’s move to suspend operations a “declaration of war”. The North declared the industrial park — which has run by the rivals as a symbol of cooperation for more than a decade — a military control zone, the agency that handles its ties with Seoul said, according to the official KCNA news agency. Dozens of South Korean trucks were already returning across the border earlier in the day, laden with goods and equipment, after the South said it was pulling out. “Unpardonable is the puppet group’s act of totally suspending the operation in [Kaesong], finding fault with the DPRK’s H-bomb test and launch of a satellite,” the North’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said, referring to South Korea. Isolated North Korea regularly dismisses the South as a puppet of the United States and just as regularly accuses both of acts of war against it. DPRK is short for the North’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. North Korea tested what it said was a hydrogen bomb on January 6 and on Sunday launched a rocket, putting a satellite into orbit. The United States, Japan and South Korea said the launch was a ballistic missile test, and like last month’s nuclear test, a violation of UN resolutions.